fallout for the agency in charge of storing information on employees for the federal government. we have a new revelation. they are shutting down a huge database that it uses to update and store background investigation records. the agency finds a new flaw in the system that left it vulnerable to the hackers. although it's not believed that anyone got to that information. suspected chinese hackers did swipe the records for up to 18 million current and former federal workers and contractors just earlier this spring. we'll continue to follow the story for you at the live desk. first at 4:00, a a guilty plea from a man who was accused of threatening women during the holiday shopping season. christian jordan pled guilty. you may remember in december when a manhunt came to an end at the west field mall. he hid in the parking lot waiting for women to come by.

he would then use a bb gun to force them into a sexual act. >> the bb gun looked so similar to a real gun a that anybody that's not familiar with guns might think that it's a handgun. >> jordan will be sentenced later this year and could face up to 25 years in prison. nerves are on edge in a northwest d.c. neighborhood. the man who sexually a assaulted a woman in her home is still at large. it happened early saturday morning at 41st street near glover park. the man broke a window to get in sexually assaulted the homeowner, stole items from the house and ran off. police are looking for a a white male about 23 years old with a buzz cut and a dark backpack. that house is three blocks from the scene of the mansion murders. students at wooten high in rockville, maryland needed grief counselors to get through the day. two classmates died friday morning.

recent graduates were in the backseat when the vehicle flipped and landed in a neighbor's driveway. police say speed and alcohol were both factors in the crash. two other students in the car were also hurt. he paid thousands of dollars to settle a $30 bill for missed tolls. now he's fighting back to make sure other drivers don't have to do the sasm. news 4 transportation reporter adam tuss has more. >> reporter: what's happening here along the express lanes just isn't adding up for some drivers. we talked to one guy today who says, yeah, he missed a couple tolls here on the express lanes but the bill that he got hit with in response was massive. we're talking about thousands of dollars. and now a class action lawsuit has been filed against the operator of the lanes claiming that they are abusing their power. coming up on news 4 at 5:00 we'll hear how this guy had to settle his claim and what

transurban has to say if you get stuck with the same situation. along the beltway, adam tuss news 4. you'll soon find it easier to identify virginia's express lanes on the beltway and on i-95. the new four-inch purple stripes are being added inside the white and yellow stripes that lead to the express lanes. the idea is to make it clear that you're entering those lanes. a racing boat lost control and ran into some spectator's boats in. maryland and now the coast guard is trying to figure out why. a 7-year-old boy was killed in that crash and several others were injured. it happened over the weekend near kent island at the annual thunder on the narrows races. 5 miles away from there another boat capsized and a man fell in the water. the coast guard is still looking for him. he wasn't wearing a a life jacket and can't swim. >> you have to have it on before

the crash. so you always wear the life jacket and it makes it easier for us to spot you. >> the man is 32 years old and lives in silver spring. his family says a huge wave tossed them into the water. it's been two days and some folks in southern maryland are still cleaning up the mess from saturday's bad weather. this afternoon the national weather service confirmed two tornadoes touched down. the first one cut a a two-mile path through charles county. the second was on the ground for more than 16 miles. peak winds hit 90 miles per hour flattening several buildings and j daing others. let's get to meteorologist veronica johnson. can we absorb anymore rain? >> let's just say it's awfully wet now. we're moving up into the second wettest june on record. depending on where you are it's about the first. it's been very soggy all from the showers and thunderstorms that have been moving through. we have some more coming before

the end of the month. let's take a look at the radar now. i'm tracking a few showers that are show inging up on radar. you can see around morgantown and elkins, west virginia, light showers but the next two hours they will be making their way towards winchester. so part of your evening forecast a a warm one out there and pretty nice. isolated shower could be moving in by around 8:00. 78 your temperature. thn we're going to be dropping down to the 60s. but rain chances are up not only for tomorrow. this is the rain intensity forecast. as we go from showers to some pockets of moderate rain that will be around the area. i'll detail where those are going to hit and when and about our rain chances as we move through our first part of july. now to the major supreme court ruleing on lethal injection. today a divided court ruled that states can continue to execute prisoners with a controversial drug that's been implicated in several botched executions. death row inmates argued the

drug is unreliable and amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. in a 5-4 decision, justice alito wrote prisoners who brought the case failed to identify an alternative method of execution with a lower risk of pain. saving lives is his day job. taking his talents to tv is a whole other matter. while you'll soon see this firefighter on nbc prime time. are we getting new clues about a possible trend of pregnancy? pulling the plug, why nbc universal is dumping trump.

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nbc universal is splitting with donald trump over comments made about immigrants. that means the miss america pageant won't air on nbc. he said they are bringing drugs and crime, they are rapists. nbcuniversal says respect and dignity for all people are corn cornerstones of its values. we're learning terrible new details about a plane that crashed into a house in massachusetts. a child was on that plane and died when the plane went down sunday. the crash also killed the other passenger and the pilot. the aircraft plowed into the top floor of a family's home and crashed in their backyard. a family of four was inside. ahead in our next hour, the homeowner explains how they got out alive. is it a coincidence?

since the church pass -- massacre, there have been six fires. the cause of the other three fires is undetermined. the fbi is investigating but have not said the fires are all linked. in the meantime the congregation from the church hit most recently is trying to pick up the pieces. but they will have to start from scratch. only a few charred pews remain at the glover grove church in warrenville, south carolina. nearby churches have reached out and their generosity lifts his spirits. >> god always provides and we know that. i feel encouraged. i don't feel low. i cry sometimes but it's not tears of sadness. it's tears of joy. >> there is no word on the official cause of the fire at that church. a local d.c. firefighter

could be riding the big red truck to fame and fortune. the newest competitor on "american ninja warrior." a possible panda pregnancy. a new update from the national zoo. and outside we're all dry in the metro area, but there are rain showers with thunderstorms across parts of the ohio value e lee. we're keeping a close track on those. we'll let you know whether those thunderstorm chances are making their way into our area. there's a slight risk for storms out there, but around the metro we'll be dry. rain chances maybe a little higher along parts of i-81. you can see on the model by 9:00 tonight a risk of a few showers from winchester and lo ray. those showers grazing boo parts of northern maryland by 10:00 or 11:00. start to think about your weekend forecast, news 4 at 4:00 back a of this.

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there are still lots of questions about that horrible case of a mother and daughter lek cuted during weekend storms. the fire marshal and detectives returned to the house today where a portable sump pump was running when the electrocutions happened. >> reporter: police detectives and fire marble are trying to figure out how a portable sump pump similar to this one may have led to the death of a mother and 4-year-old child.

investigators say this woman used the same sump pump in the past. a portable sump pump was nearby and lekically charged the standing water. lilly and crystal were electrocuted. an electrician will be working with detectives and the fire marshal on this investigation. at 5:00 what our experts say about how this pump could have turned deadly. today mayor kicked off the summer youth employment program. it's the first time that training and jobs will go off without the late marion barry started the program in 1979. we spoke with a few students to hear what they want to get out of it. thousands of people have spread out for the first day of the d.c. summer youth program. we caught up with two very nervous and excited young people down at the wilson building. the 23-year-old sits at her desk

we recently met her at another youth employment job and the tranty graduate students fit in under the summer program expanded age group for men and women up to 2437. we met a younger worker. he showed up ready to learn. >> i definitely gotten experience? different offices. it's not just wake up in the morning and go to work. there's policy, there's actually protocol and i have learned a lot. >> i have always wanted a job. first i thought maybe a camp counsellor or something like that, but my dad was like you should try something more challenging. i can learn how to be responsible and take leadership because most people are not taking the job in an office like this but more like maybe easier

jobs. >> the mayor put her own spin on the program renaming it in honor of the late marion barry who started the program. they redirected $5 million in tax money to pay for older workers to come on board and to give everybody a bit of a a raise. people who live along florida's atlantic coast are being asked to keep an eye out for rocket debris and if they find any, they are being told to call police to come and get it. that word from nasa after a rocket blew up after takeoff yesterday. this is the third time in eight months that a cargo ship has been lost. this was carrying much-needed supplies to the international space station. they lost water supplies, a replacement space suit and parts for a a water filtration system. >> not only personal stuff in clothing and food, but also supplies for sosm of the experiments and upgrading the

space station. >> the crew has enough food and water to last until the fall. over pressurization in and an oxygen tank is the likely cause. investigators are on the ground in alaska trying to figure out why a sight-seeing plane slammed into a cliff. eight cruise ship passengers and the pilot died in the crash. two of them were a dad and daughter from montgomery county. the plane went down in southeastern alaska where the terrain is steep, mountainous and a lot of times sees strong winds and rain. the tour was an excursion from a holland america cruise. if bobbi kristina brown's family was feuding you wouldn't know it. for the first time this morning two of her aunts visited brown together sharing a long embrace outside the facility. tyler perry stopped by to visit the daughter of whitney houston. bobbi kristina brown was found unconscious in a bathtub at

home. she's been taken off life support and moved to hospice. officials in maryland confirm 62-year-old died when his pontoon boat went over a dam. eight others survived without injuries. this is video of four of them who were trapped on the rocks and who had to be rescued. no one on the boat was wearing a life jacket at the time. officials say a dog that was reportedly on board is still missing. if we g can bottle up days like this i don't think people would be complain inging. >> that it would, but we're looking a ahead to the rain chances we have coming up for the end of the month. the rainfall total for the month of june is close to 12 inches. these are going to make their way into the d.c. area. but they could hold together enough that by the time they get to spots like winchester,

petersburg, they could be holding together and deliver some wet weather here for the afternoon and early evening hours. we have a fair lyly quiet evening coming our way tomorrow morning. some clouds out there, a few more clouds than what we have had today. you're going to notice the increase in humidity. 63 to 71 degrees. then as we move forward to the pool forecast. lots of afternoon sunshine, but the chance of a popup shower or thunderstorm, today we are in the 80s. so with those popup thorm thunderstorms, the hail threat is low, tornado threat is low. we could get brief wind coming from the storms. 87 in culpepper. 89 in fredericksburg. sky cast for tomorrow, some more clouds across the area. but again, it is looking dry

throughout most of the day. there's your isolated shower at 11:00 a.m. and the thunderstorm chances close to 9 o 0 degrees. we have 90 on tap for midweek. thunderstorm chances continue and as we look forward, we're going to have a detailed look at your 4th of july forecast with new data coming up. >> thank you. if you have been waiting to see another little panda cub at the national skoo zoo, you may have to wait a little longer. there's a new sign that she may not be expecting. a national zoo animal keeper told wtop that she disrupted her den last night. that mean. s she's likely not nesting. but there is still some hope. zoo keepers won't rule out a pregnancy until september. they plan to try again next year to produce a siblings for bowbow. a rock icon injured. the show must go on. the foo fighters will perform at

rfk on the 4th of july. last week david grohl fell off a stage and broke his leg while the band was performing in sweden, but grohl cemented his legendary status when he came back and finished the show on crutches. a short time ago they confirmed their d.c. date saying they will see their fans at home. grohl grew up in the springfield, virginia area. we have already one of d.c.'s heroes and now he wants to be the hero of one of tv's biggest obstacle courses. he's going to get a shot at that tonight. >> reporter: firefighter paramedic mike bernard is supposed to be on duty today but he couldn't make it. one of his colleagues is filling in. >> there it is. >> reporter: for years he's been working hard trying to become an american ninja warrior. he's tried before and failed, but this time he's determined.

>> i'm ready to be the first american ninja warrior. >> reporter: he says he's doing it for the other firefighters who works alongside him. . as for whether he make s it to the top of that mountain this year and qualifies, you'll have to tune in and find out. in the district, mark seagraves, news 4. >> you can watch his run tonight here on nbc 4. . "american ninja warrior" starts at 8:00. . taking down a killer on the run. new details emerge about the capture of david sweat and why he was able to evade the canines for so long. a new series of east coast shark attacks. the warnings you need to hear about

now to a developing story vovming the greece financial crisis. stocks plunged to the worst day of the year. . the dow fell 350 points over growing tensions with greece and its creditors. this comes as greek citizens rushed to atms and lined up outside gas stations. standard and poors cut their credit rating over their financial crisis. the country put a $67 limit on atm withdrawals after closing banks for the week. it's meant to keep money in the

financial system and push the cred creditors to offer concessions before a bailout program expires tomorrow. foreign banks are not restricting money to terrorists, but the long lines are making it very challenging for visitors there. some big news for a silver spring based company. discovery communications secured the european broadcast rights for four olympics games. it's a landmark deal worth more than $1 billion. they will broadcast in 2018 through 2024 in europe. discovery has also agreed to collaborate with the olympic committee on its new year round olympics channel. a federal agency and google are teaming up to bring another alert for your cell phone. the federal railroad administration asked to develop an alert that lets you know when you're approaching railroad crossings. the alert will include audio and visual clues. so far google is the only

company that's agreed to this. it's an effort to reduce the number of train on vehicle accidents that have taken place in recent years. some new details are emerging in the escape of two killers. a high ranking official just revealed where two inmates plan to go once they broke out of prison and their ride never showed up. tomorrow there will be 61 seconds in a minute. we'll explain why a leap second is looming.

a man suspected in a serz of crimes could face more than two decades in prison. christian jordan pled guilty earlier this afternoon to sexual assault and armed robbery. he used a bb gun to prey on women in the parking garage last december. he will be sentenced in the fall. two liberal supreme court justices are urging the court to take a broader look at capital punishment. today the court ruled that states can continue to use a controversial drug cocktail for lethal injections. death row inmates argued unsuccessfully that one of the drugs is unreliable and may cause extreme pain. right now the lone surviving escaped killer is recovering from gunshot wounds at a hospital in new york. >> doctors say he's going to need surgery. >> with the other escaped killer dead, rhode island chard matt.

>> we're finding out more about this plan. >> yeah, we're finding out a lot more since this investigation infolds. police hope david sweat will provide answers about the prison break here as their investigation continues. many in the communities are stopping today to say thank you to officers after three weeks on edge here. as police take a victory lap of sorts, family. s in upstate new york can now finally breathe a sigh of relief. >> you want to cry like thank god it's over. >> reporter: tears of joy after an army of 1200 officers and federal agents ended the three-week manhunt for david sweat and richard matt. >> it felt good to sit on my porch last night in the dark by myself and not have to worry about what's out there. >> reporter: while the search is over, the search for answers about how they escaped is not. >> apparently the original plan

was for both matt and sweat to go. to mexico. >> reporter: during a radio interview, andrew cuomo release the new details. he says when joyce mitchell didn't show up to give the men a ride, they turned their sights towards canada splitting up five days ago. >> he felt that sweat was e slowing him down. when we caught up with him it was a mile and a half from the canadian borders. >> he's in serious but stable condition at albany medical center where investigators want to ask him some direct questions about the prison break. >> how this escape occurred, who was involved and how many people. >> reporter: police have arrested a second prison e employee who was arraigned on charges of tampering and promoting prison contraband. in a community anxious for justice and overwhelmed by the work of police and federal

agents here. home made posters dot the landscape now as so many small communityings try to get back to normal. that's the latest live here in new york, i'm jay gray, back to you. >> thank you, jay. a man stunned a courtroom when he offered to forgifve the charleston church shooter and anthony thompson said good-bye to his wife. he also accused the shoot rer to repent. jackie bensen surprised worshippers when e he showed up for services at the church. mr. biden said he visited the church before and knew the pastor. prince william county police are searching for a 23-year-old man who may need help. albert beck told his home after midnight. police say he has brown hair, blue eyes and tattoos on his neck, left hand and right wrist. he may be. driving a 2009 toyota with virginia tags.

he left voluntarily, but police believe he may be in need of assistance. in just a couple hours, there could be a new child abuse policy in montgomery county schools. it could include background checks for anyone who works at the schools. the changes come after sex abuse of students. one former elementary student is suing after a music teacher pled guilty to abusing 14 children. a second earthquake in virginia in two days. 2:00 in the morning a 2.2 magnitude quake hit near the north carolina state line. on saturday another 2.2 magnitude hit 5 miles south of loisa. people felt it from georgia to canada. that was the one that damaged the washington monument and cathedral. let's check in with meteorologist chuck bell. a lot of us were enjoying that lower humidity today, but got a

feeling it's not going to last. >> it's a one-day humidity vacation. don't get too used to the low humidity. we know those days of low humidity are few and far between. the overall impact on your day today was nice and low. weather impact for tomorrow low to low moderate. there will be a chance for a scattered shower or thunderstorm coming our way tomorrow. but in the meantime if you're going out and putting shrimp on the grill, temperatures going to be in the low 80s. perfect weather for barbecuing. by tomorrow morning, mid-60s in the northern suburbs. and then hometown forecast, tomorrow morning 66. 87 by 2:00. warm and humid, 84 by 8:00 with a chance of a few showers late in the day. the rates are going up this week. starting wednesday you'll be paying 4% more to take the same ride. right now a trip on the manassas line costs $8.45. on wednesday it will cost $8.80.

on average you'll be paying 35 cents more per trip. a plane crashes into a house and the family inside survives. new at 4:00, the homeowner describes the moment of impact. and clocks are changing. why tomorrow will be second longer than today and why some banks are worried about that. a family is mourning the loss of a wife and mother after a tragic bike accident. police are now calling it a hit-and-run. they are looking for the vehicle responsible. out here in capitol heights, you can still see the markings from the accident. . the victim in the accident is 56-year-old donna holiday clark. she was less than two miles from home when the accident happened. her husband tells me that she was an avid bike rider. >> she was very healthy. i thought she was going to be 110. >> reporter: police are looking for a dark or black dodge charger. they believe the vehicle should

still have some damage after the accident. coming up on news 4 at 5:00, what police think this driver was doing when this accident happened.

unless you're trading stocks, you probably won't notice more time in the day. there will be a leap second.

the extra time is there to make up and adjust for the earth's rotation, which has been slowing down and is now about 2 milliseconds too long every day. stock markets are concerned about how the extra seconds will impact their computers because electronic trading can happen in less than a second. the last was in 2012 but that fell on a a saturday. new numbers make it clear that americans are more of working mothers than ever before. researchers at san diego state university looked at attitudes towards working mom and family roles. between 1976 and 2013 recent surveys show 22% of high school seniors think a young child suffers if their mother works. that number is down from 59% back in the '70s. adults feel the same as the high school seniors. >> this is just an amazing story out in nevada. a woman in labor got lost. she ran out of gas and had had

to give birth all alone in a national forest. amber was driving to her mom and dad's house when she started having contractions so she took a shortcut through the forest but her car ran out of gas and there was no cell service. she had no choice but to give birth on her own. for the next three days she protected her daughter from mosquitoes and bees and to hope for someone to rescue her. on saturday she had to start a signal fire and then within two hours a fire helicopter spotted the stranded pair and they sent help. >> i was crying because i thought we were going to die. i was so glad someone had had seen us and we were going to be okay. >> that baby better give her mom a break after all that. they were both rushed to the nearest hospital. they are both going to be okay but what a story. >> that is a story. a crash and the house that

shook. the homeowner runs outside to see the worst. >> my wife and my boys were upstairs when the plane hit. tracking some showers now. you can see them off to the west around petersburg. our temperatures will start falling. out of the low 80s where they have been today. tomorrow a bit more warmth. a chance for an isolated thunderstorm. we have moderate road impact conditions for mid-afternoon and our rain chances are still there for not only the last of june but also the first part of july. will this impact your 4th of july forecast? we have that coming up. beach forecast is all next

my wife and my boys were upstairs when the plane hit. the boys' rooms are the ones burnt behind me. >> talk about a close call. it was just a quiet sunday evening at home until a plane came crashing into their roof. a doctor from tennessee and his wife and daughter were killed. they were flying to boston for a college visit. the fire chief says it's a miracle anyone made it out of the house alive. for the first time the homeowner tells us what it was like. ed. >> reporter: a family escapes after a plane crashes into their

home. >> e we heard a loud bang. some of the neighbors said you're used to explosions here and the house shaking. when i saw the fireball go down the back of the house, we realized it was more serious. >> reporter: his two boys r were upstairs in their bedrooms. when they saw the flames they rushed outside. >> i don't know how the plane hit. what i know is that the house above my kids' rooms was on fire when i came outside. >> reporter: a small single engine craft reported having engine problems and couldn't make a safe emergency landing. three people on board including a child died in the crash. neighbors in the quiet cul-de-sac heard the plane and knew something was wrong. >> the engine was sputtering, but it wasn't gliding. >> it flew right over the rooftop. and it was very low over the trees. it hit the back of the house.

>> reporter: the home e erupted in flames with no hydrants in town, firefighters had a tough job. the plane broken in pieces, the tail still in the yard. investigators now on scene trying to figure out exactly what went wrong. >> we need to have support for that family. they are in far graver circumstances than we are. >> beach goers in north carolina are on high alert after two more shark attacks. take a look at the youtube video. it shows a 7-foot shark being reeled in by three fisherman on friday. the woman who shot the video says this happened an hour's drive from where a shark attacked a man the same day. the next day an 18-year-old boy nearly died during an attack. north carolina usually sees about five shark bites a year. there's already been six this month. but experts say warmer waters and more swimmers play a role and so does all the cell phone video we're watching.

>> the reality is that we're not under siege by sharks. what we have is a change in perception as opposed to a change in reality. >> in fact, experts say you're more likely to be hurt in a car accident on the way to the beach than actually bitten by a a shark once you get there. the solar plane derailed by bad weather is now back in the air and headed for hawaii. the pilots took off from their expected stop after that stop in japan this morning. they are expected to reach hawaii by the end of the week. after that they plan to head to arizona, new york city. if the plane makes it, it would be the first wing eded aircraft to fly around the world fuelled only by the sun. you can see the flames as firefighters in washington state battle a blaze that's already destroyed two dozen homes and two businesses. the blaze began sunday afternoon. fed by high temperatures and

strong winds it spread quickly to more than 3,000 acres. homes and two wholesale fruit packing companies burned and. people are under evacuation orders. the greater phoenix area is back online after dust storms knocked out power to 50,000 people over the weekend. the storms carried winds more than 40 miles an hour. sand storms are caused by strong winds in arid regions. chuck, when's our next storm? >> our next storm chance comes as early as tomorrow, but this is not going to be the same kind of storm chance we had had on saturday. saturday was crazy inundated with rainfall. tomorrow we go back to just the usual scattered showers and thunderstorms around primarily during the daytime heating during the peak of the afternoon. temperatures for today are very tolerable indeed. 80 in charlottesville. 8 82 downtown.

79 in annapolis. seven-day forecast time, the next couple days, tomorrow warm front goes by tonight. that brings the more humid air back in the picture for tomorrow. that's the reason thunderstorm chances are back as well. the front brings an enhancement in the rain chance and once we're in place in the warm air tuesday, lower rain chance and higher temperatures. 89 tomorrow, 90 on wednesday. the second half of the week, a better rain chance for thursday and friday. highs cooler in the 80s. that's all right because all anyone is looking forward to is the end of the week and on into 4th of july weekend. that's where we have some of our best weather of the next seven coming. saturday, 4th itself, can't rule out an ice lalted shower, but rain chances are less than 30%. sunday looks like it's going to be a dry day. that's also welcome news. a lot of folks already thinking i could leave for the beach early. if you do that, not bad beach weather. thursday and friday a shower chance there.

but so far it looks like it's going to be great at the beaches this weekend. fireworks stands are now open in northern virginia as we wait for the 4th of july. the fireworks that are allowed vary by jurisdiction. the list of approved fireworks changes almost daily. for the rules and locations where you can find professional displays in your area, search fireworks in the nbc washington app. we're working several developing stories right now in our newsroom. investigators are back at a house where a mother and her young daughter were electrocuted. this happened saturday during the strong storms that chuck was mentioning. the family had a portable sump pump running in their home. we are gathering the latest information and coming up at 5:00, swrooel more on how to stay safe while using sump pumps in your home. the company in charge of the toll lanes on the beltway and i-95 in northern virginia is now facing a class action lawsuit

related to clkting activities. drivers say they have been hit with excessive penalties for missed tolls. adam tuss talked to a guy who got an $11,000 bill for $30 in missed tolls. his story is coming up at 5:00. >> that doesn't seem right. a message from the mob boss. >> three girls write to a gangster in jail and he writes back. the one piece of advice he gave them.

we have been hearing a lot about shark attacks lately, but a different creature has folks on edge in texas. a 13-year-old boy wasplaying along the banks of lake charlotte over the weekend when a gi tor latched on to his arm. the boy's family all jumped in to help and manage edd to pry the boy's arm out of the jaws but not before the gator bit the boy's father in the leg. wildlife officials say the rains have gators lurking in place thas usually are not seen. >> we have a lot of back waters. especially with the recent flooding we have seen, there's gators in areas you might not find them. >> both the dad and son are out of surgery and are going to be okay. >> that's good news. just weeks before his appeal, former boston crime boss is publicly expressing remorse. >> his words of regret come not

to investigators but to a group of high school students. >> my life was wasted and spent foolishly. . it brought shame and suffering on my parents and siblings and will end soon. >> reporter: those are the words of south boston crime boss james whitey to three high school students in lakeville massachusetts. they wrote to him asking for his take on leadership and legacy for a a world history competition. >> we decided to do a negative leader. someone who was different and different from a president or positive role model. >> reporter: and were shocked when they got his response. in his letter to them he suggests they do a project on servicemen at the walter reid hospital instead and says that he should be forgotten. >> i'm a ninth grade dropout from school and took the wrong road. >> reporter: the girls say the words don't match up with the defiant mob boss they researched who was involved in 11 murders and spent more than a decade on

the run. >> from strictly looking at the letter, it does seem like he has had a little bit of a turn around sitting in jail for so long. >> reporter: but analysts say the letter is far from an a apology. >> i think he's waging his media campaign in the press for the sake of the family name and his own reputation and i think he's been doing that since the time of the trial. >> reporter: bull ger needs to improve his image before his appeal, but she does agree the letter had one sound piece of advice for teens. >> i know only one thing for sure. if you want to make crime pay go to law school. >> news 4 at 5:00 starts right now. right now at 5:00, she was the mother of three and she was killed on her bicycle. the driver who hit her left her to die in the street. now a family is talking about the loved one they lost in that

hit-and-run accident this weekend. >> donna clark was 56 and she loved hitting the road on her bicycle but friday night she was struck and killed on her bike in capital heights. tracee wilkins is live on the scene. >> reporter: they still have markings here on the roadway. you can see the impact of the accident. where it first happened and where she was thrown here on the roadway. now prince georges county police are looking for the driver of the vehicle responsible and the family is looking for answers. >> she wasn't too far away. less than two miles. >> reporter: just before 11:00 p.m. friday, 56-year-old donna clark was riding her bike home when tragedy struck. >> they hit her so hard that she died. >> reporter: according to a witness who called an ambulance -- >> two cars were racing going south on richie road and at the

hill, they passed the witness car. >> reporter: it happened on richie road. police say they believe a dark-colored charger struck donna and kept going. >> it's tragic. it's unfortunate. it's irresponsible. it's the world we live in. >> reporter: she enjoyed biking even great distances. >> a friend of mine called me yesterday with the news and said he just saw donna on george avenue with her bike. >> reporter: but not for donna whose family says she was a vegetarian and in great shape. >> she was very healthy. i thought she was going to be 110. i was worried about being able to keep up. >> reporter: her life was tragically cut short. >> she was a beautiful person. >> reporter: she dedicated her life to her family and now there without her. >> thank god for the time we